photo

if you click on "wallyesterpaulrus" in the yahoo id column of the
messages index, you'll see a recent pic of me playing with
stretch . . . (just in case anyone thinks i'm actually a machine, an
alien, or a demonic being from hell)

----- Original Message -----
From: "wallyesterpaulrus" <wallyesterpaulrus@yahoo.com>

> if you click on "wallyesterpaulrus" in the yahoo id column of the
> messages index, you'll see a recent pic of me playing with
> stretch . . . (just in case anyone thinks i'm actually a machine, an
> alien, or a demonic being from hell)

...who posts photos of himself playing a 12tet guitar on the
Yahoo tuning site.

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

>> if you click on "wallyesterpaulrus" in the yahoo id column of the
>> messages index, you'll see a recent pic of me playing with
>> stretch . . . (just in case anyone thinks i'm actually a machine, an
>> alien, or a demonic being from hell)
>
>...who posts photos of himself playing a 12tet guitar on the
>Yahoo tuning site.

Actually, it's not a tuning site. One of the nice things about yahoo
is that one account gets you webmail, groups, photo albums, financial
data, etc.

-Carl

----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Lumma" <ekin@lumma.org>

> >> if you click on "wallyesterpaulrus" in the yahoo id column of the
> >> messages index, you'll see a recent pic of me playing with
> >> stretch . . . (just in case anyone thinks i'm actually a machine, an
> >> alien, or a demonic being from hell)
> >
> >...who posts photos of himself playing a 12tet guitar on the
> >Yahoo tuning site.
>
> Actually, it's not a tuning site. One of the nice things about yahoo
> is that one account gets you webmail, groups, photo albums, financial
> data, etc.

If I had called it a tuning site, folks would have had a problem with that.

Instead of avoiding the obvious, explain the relevance of of photo of
Paul playing a 12tet guitar to this list.

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:

/tuning/topicId_43966.html#44014

> > data, etc.
>
> If I had called it a tuning site, folks would have had a problem
with that.
>
> Instead of avoiding the obvious, explain the relevance of of photo
of
> Paul playing a 12tet guitar to this list.
>
>

***In all fairness, Paul showed me how to bend up at least a half-
step, maybe a whole step on my 12-tET electric guitar. I didn't
really think about that being possible...

JP

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@rcn.com>

> ***In all fairness, Paul showed me how to bend up at least a half-
> step, maybe a whole step on my 12-tET electric guitar. I didn't
> really think about that being possible...

Any guitarist could have showed you the same thing JP. Bending
strings on a guitar isn't a mystery cult.

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

David,

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> ...who posts photos of himself playing a 12tet guitar on the
> Yahoo tuning site.

If I posted a photo of myself playing a normal marimba instead of a diamond marimba, would that be equally offensive? What if I were holding a cat? By the neck? :)

Look, he has a photo out there, and I don't mind getting a mental image of a person I've long seen only in ascii commentary, even if he has a 12eq guitar. I know people who have pictures of themselves with non-12 instruments that represent, to me, the failure of tuning(s) to overcome bad musicianship; holding a particular instrument wouldn't save them...

Cheers,
Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Szanto" <JSZANTO@ADNC.COM>

> David,
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, David Beardsley <db@b...> wrote:
> > ...who posts photos of himself playing a 12tet guitar on the
> > Yahoo tuning site.
>
> If I posted a photo of myself playing a normal marimba instead
>of a diamond marimba, would that be equally offensive?

Yep. Less so because you haven't generated
a zillion posts to the tuning list about tuning theory and then
anounced a photo about.....ahem....when IS Paul
going to walk the walk? This is getting kinda silly.

I should make a web page about, ahem, my "happy parts"
and then post about it to the tuning list. That would be OK, right?.

>What if I were holding a cat? By the neck? :)

If that's the image you want to project, go for it.

> > Look, he has a photo out there, and I don't mind getting
>a mental image of a person I've long seen only in ascii
>commentary, even if he has a 12eq guitar. I know people
>who have pictures of themselves with non-12 instruments
>that represent, to me, the failure of tuning(s) to overcome
>bad musicianship; holding a particular instrument wouldn't save them...

Whatever.

* David Beardsley
* microtonal guitar
* http://biink.com/db

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Joseph Pehrson" <jpehrson@r...> wrote:

> ***In all fairness, Paul showed me how to bend up at least a half-
> step, maybe a whole step on my 12-tET electric guitar. I didn't
> really think about that being possible...

more importantly, i showed joseph that you can bend by microtonal
amounts to get any 11-limit consonance you want -- with distortion,
it's especially easy to hear when you're "locked in".